Overview
- MLB Pipeline’s initial list features a shortstop-heavy top tier, with the top four all at the position and nine shortstops in the top 25.
- The top 10 mixes six college players and four high schoolers, led by UCLA shortstop Roch Cholowsky, with Coastal Carolina right-hander Cameron Flukey the lone college arm in that group.
- The overall Top 100 skews 55 college to 45 high school prospects, as scouts describe this class as stronger at the top than 2025 but thinner in college pitching.
- High-school left-handers are highlighted for upside, including top-20 talents Carson Bolemon and Gio Rojas, while evaluators caution that early rankings remain fluid.
- The Draft Lottery is set for Tuesday, Dec. 9 at 5:30 p.m. ET from the Winter Meetings in Orlando on MLB Network, with the Nationals locked at No. 11 and Pipeline’s No. 11 Tyler Spangler viewed as within their range.